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Zombies have gained a lot of popularity in the past years. Fortunately for us, zombies remain limited to our screens and the imagination...

Along the hiking trails or forests of Hong Kong⛰️ and many other regions of Asia such as Okinawa, Taiwan, and Malaysia, you make come...

Did you know that there is a small evergreen plant 🌱 that has managed to thrive on Earth for millions of years? It's called...

𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘢 Blume is a plant belonging to the Fagaceae family, known to have adult trees reaching up to 18 m,...

The tropical or common swamp pitcher-plant, 𝘕𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴, is a species of carnivorous plant widespread...

Schima (𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘢 Gardner & Champ.), a majestic evergreen tree of the Theaceae family, stands tall in the forests of...

If you see pods on the ground next to rivers and shorelines, it might have fallen off from the Wild Beans, 𝘗𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘢...

Corals are one of the most intriguing and misunderstood marine organisms in the world. Some people may think they are rocks, some think...

Under the waves of the reefs and lagoons off the Indo-Pacific sits a gentle giant . It opens its shell wide and open, extending its flap...

Deep beneath the waves of the vast ocean, an extraordinary creature dwells. Roaming freely with its elongated body and majestic...

There is a large colorful forest under the sea. One might think of a reef with corals of different colors. Today , however, we introduce...

Beneath the rolling waves of the Atlantic and the serene waters of the Mediterranean Sea🌊, a curious species thrives in the sandy or...

Few species go through hundreds of millions of years without important body plan changes. Today’s species, the huge, fossil-looking...

When it comes to crabs🦀, we usually think of them as "walking sideways↔️", but exceptions exist as in the case of today’s protagonist,...

Did you notice all the white spots sticking out from boat surfaces and sea walls at harbors? Those are animals known as barnacles. They...

Beetles (order Coleoptera) are the most diverse organisms on Earth (besides maybe for microorganisms), with one in every five known...

Some organisms get an unfair reputation, in particular within groups like insects. The beetle 𝘖𝘤𝘺𝘱𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴 (O.F.Müller, 1764)...

In the 1960s and 70s, there was a common insect found under street lamps and drains of Hong Kong, and sold by many street vendors as...

When it comes to flies, many of us immediately associate them, often wrongly, with annoyance and diseases. However, not all flies fit...

There are over 6000 species of biting midge, small flies in the family Ceratopogonidae (Newman, 1834) - more than all mammal species -...